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In reply to the discussion: To fund border wall, Trump administration weighs cuts to Coast Guard, airport security [View all]displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)57. What a great way to make it easier for drug and weapon smuggling!
Cut back on coastal protection and airport security? Sure. Makes perfect sense if you're in hock to international bad guys.
What could possibly go wrong?
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To fund border wall, Trump administration weighs cuts to Coast Guard, airport security [View all]
Fast Walker 52
Mar 2017
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Great. Then when they drill holes in it, and they will sooner or later, then all those organizations
caroldansen
Mar 2017
#2
With the lack of background checking, the drug dealers will probably be hired to build the wall.
yardwork
Mar 2017
#48
Trumplethinskin doesn't have accomplices that can profit from the Coast Guard or Airport Security
Thor_MN
Mar 2017
#4
Republicans prison charges $10,000 a week to detention camp one woman & child? people spend YEARS in
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#7
$1.9 billion funding immigration detention beds (Americans money into private FOR PROFIT hands)
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#9
When right-wingers say "borders" they really mean the one that lies between us and Latinos.
Lanius
Mar 2017
#14
good point-- it's either all an act or he's just been brainwashed by FoxNews
Fast Walker 52
Mar 2017
#36
That is beyond hilarious, that is mind boggling -- stand aside Dr Strangelove, you're outdone.
ColemanMaskell
Mar 2017
#23
You just don't understand that illegal immigrants can't climb walls or operate a boat or fly
tclambert
Mar 2017
#25
FFS, dumpty is LOONEY TUNES, CRAY CRAY, MAD - all for some damn wall that is unneeded.
iluvtennis
Mar 2017
#30
The Coast Guard actually saves American lives. The most popular branch of armed forces.
mainer
Mar 2017
#44
the EPA? Oh, wait, that's going too -- The oil companies? haha. Local govt. Volunteers. Nobody.
ColemanMaskell
Mar 2017
#54
That was one of those things we weren't supposed to take him literally on.
Zing Zing Zingbah
Mar 2017
#63
He recently said Americans were going to front the money for the wall
Zing Zing Zingbah
Mar 2017
#66
When they say wall, are they really talking about a giant structure that extends over 2,000 miles?
xor
Mar 2017
#59
In Trump's fevered mind, yes. Otherwise, not so much. Plus there's already a border fence/wall
Fast Walker 52
Mar 2017
#60